Boordy Vineyards - Mock website
broli4000 (15 pencils) | Mon, 2010-05-03 16:38
Hey everyone,
I have made some changes based on your previous critiques.
I changed the color scheme slightly so that it looks a little more professional and it highlights the photo (that is where I really want the attention anyways)
I also made a few changes to various things so that it all looks right as there were things off center in the last one.
I also really want the home page to be more of a splash page as an introduction to the vineyard and you can go from there.
Let me know what you guys think and I will make the appropriate changes. Thanks!
Matt
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Here is the site in the browser, just so you can get a feel for how it looks that way.
Thanks again for the critiques
Whether it's true or not - the photo looks slanted. Maybe that's a hill or something, but there's nothing to tip off the viewer - so it looks like the photo is crooked. The website looks workable to me, but the photo is not only crooked - it's boring too. Don't they have any wine photos? People drinking, enjoying the spirits? If not maybe you could do a montage of these type of vineyard photos - the vineyards, the barns, the cellar, the barrels, etc.. Something to juice it up a little. This looks like an eco-friendly farm website or something.
Being VIneyard, they should have wine trees, those beautiful rows of wine fruits, I think you need to replace your photo with wine fruit. The photo you have at the moment isn't very appealing and reminds me of an amish village ;)
Try an image (from the vineyard of course) like this: http://static.panoramio.com/photos/original/17608908.jpg
Here's a good example of a vineyard we visited last week: http://www.saintclair.co.nz/
Also you could go down the wine tasting route, but not too many people as you don't want to add clutter, but make sure there's lots of smiles :)
Good luck!
Yeah, the photo right now is a stop gap measure. I forgot to mention that I will not be keeping that photo at all, but just needed something up there with a little green in it. This vineyard just doesn't have any good photos out there and I don't want to go the stock photo route for something like that.
I do plan on having that main image switch between 3-4 different photos so there will be some change there.
Aside from the main photo, is there anything else glaring that needs a good smack and change?
Thanks a ton,
Matt
Wrong direction.
I can't feel I'm at vineyard.
I feel I'm buying wine at some virtual tiny storehouse.
or some PhotoBlogger about wine published something without any content that I want to read about.
Where is the sophistication flavour?
You didn't tell us this this wine is good to drink at refined places or memorable instances.
You use a lot of bold, it makes whole page cheap.
OK you abandonned drop shadows, this is the only progress IMHO.
My lemon tree is crying. =[
yes I'm brazilian xD